Claire Berlinski, a contributing editor of City Journal, is an American journalist who lives in Istanbul. She is the author of There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.

Theodore Dalrymple, a physician, is a contributing editor of City Journal and the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His latest book is The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism.

John V. Fleming taught literature at Princeton University until his retirement in 2006. He is the author, most recently, of The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War.

Nicole Gelinas, a City Journal contributing editor and the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and the author of After the Fall.

Edward L. Glaeser is a professor of economics at Harvard University, a City Journal contributing editor, and a Manhattan Institute senior fellow. He is grateful to Kristina Tobio for heroic research assistance.

Peter Huber is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and the coauthor, most recently, of The Bottomless Well.

Stefan Kanfer, a contributing editor of City Journal and a former editor of Time, is the author, most recently, of a biography of Marlon Brando, Somebody.

Myron Magnet is City Journal’s editor-at-large. He is the author of The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of The New New Left. Research for his article was supported by the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation.

John H. McWhorter is a contributing editor of City Journal. His latest book is Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue.

Judith Miller is a contributing editor of City Journal, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a FOX News contributor.

Benjamin A. Plotinsky is managing editor of City Journal. His writing has appeared in Commentary and Academic Questions.

Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of Economics Does Not Lie and other books.

Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

William Voegeli is a contributing editor of The Claremont Review of Books, a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna College’s Salvatori Center, and the author of Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State.

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a City Journal contributing editor.

Soundings and Sidebars:

Cameron Abadi is the Germany correspondent for GlobalPost. Alain de Botton is the author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and other books. Christopher Clausen is the author of Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America. Steven Greenhut directs the Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center. Philippe Nemo is a professor of philosophy and political science at ESCP Europe. Pete Peterson is the executive director of Common Sense California, and he lectures at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy. Mark Riebling is a writer in New York City. Tevi D. Troy, the former deputy secretary of health and human services, is a visiting senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Benjamin Villanti is an advisor at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.

Artists:

Sean Delonas is the cartoonist for the New York Post. Alberto Mena is an artist and graphic designer based in New York City. Robert Pizzo is an illustrator and designer whose work has appeared in numerous national periodicals. Arnold Roth is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in Punch, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications. Peter Dauphin, also known as Muth, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1958. He is represented by the Licht Feld Gallery, where he has exhibited his work since 2002.

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